Why Do We Have So Many Empty Containers - The Port of Los Angeles and Using LEGO to Explain
December 22, 2021
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December 22, 2021
On this episode of What's Going on With Shipping, host Sal Mercogliano - Chair of the Department of History, Criminal Justice, and Political Science, former merchant mariner, and instructor of Maritime History, Security and Industry Policy - explains why the number of empty containers being exported from the port of Los Angeles has increased from almost nearly an equal split between full and empty containers in 2018, to 3 empty to 1 full in 2021.
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America’s new export problem: 12.1 million shipping containers left biggest U.S. ports empty
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